Parenting Pointers: How to Help Your Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

In the wake of stay-at-home orders, our kids have all been a little bit too familiar with technology. Not to downplay the benefits like interconnectivity, the continuation of learning, and virtual expeditions that have been keeping us sane during this turbulent time.
Although we don’t need to cut out devices completely, it’s important to employ healthy technology boundaries when it comes to both our screen use and our children’s.

Panda Security illustrates easy-to-use tactics to make relationships with tech even more beneficial. Setting these boundaries for ourselves helps our little ones follow suit easily. Always supervise young children on devices to ensure best practices are used from the get-go. For older and teenage kids, teach general best practices first. From there, explain different tech tactics for different times of the day.

Some of these might include:

• Muting and blocking negative accounts.
• Not using your phone as an alarm.
• Setting screentime limits.
• Making no phone zones.

Find more technology tactics to build healthy online relationships with the visual below.